freeclimb9

Were you exercising the extensor muscles during your weight program? You might simply have an imbalance. (with the little information you provided, this seems likely since you have just added a fly to your routine). Military press, back butterfly, incline press, shrugs, raises, etc. will all help stabilize the shoulder. As with any exercise, form is the most important part, IMO; It's better to lift a light weight correctly than a heavy one incorrectly. You're trying to isolate a muscle group and work it, not set a record, or impress the chica in the halter top.

Actually, the real issue with corporate hog farming is water table contamination and disease control.

Anejo and Coke. Just what the doctor ordered.

You make me very angry. Very angry. I so angry, I kick you so hard I hurt my big toe.

You can get in much earlier if you approach from White River. Parking at White River also sets you up for a relatively easy deproach. With regard to route beta, I didn't know there were that many options. You climb the snow and ice field and trend left into a broad gully that ends at the base of a rock wall. Skirt the wall on its right side for a few rope lengths to were the exposure is over the Mowich face and where there are some escape gullies through it. We had expected 4th class terrain while skirting the rock wall, but instead discovered brittle clear ice. For the escape gullies, I took the second one encountered, and there was a fixed pin to help protect moving over rock. Then, it's kinda over. You've got a long slog up the low angle ridge towards Liberty Cap. Navigating towards the ridgecrest helped us cross a large bergshrund. No doubt the route changes much each year and each month during the season. Beta might not help much. BTW, IMO, Liberty Ridge is more aesthetic. Though never as hard as Ptarmigan Ridge, it's consistent over a much longer section. Both good routes.

Let market forces decide. A recent article in Wired opened up a whole new paradigm for my thinking of what the future may hold. Imagine plugging your fuel-cell powered car into your house when you get home. No more grid. Anywhere. Developement of infrastructure in third-world countries takes a wild swerve towards roads, clean water, universities and hospitals. Brave new world. I hope GM pulls it off. DFA, there's more than one McCarthy in the clan.

I drank one night at the Legionare's club, or something like that, in 1988. It was nicknamed The Zoo. Just drunk goverment workers and really drunk Inuit. Two of my climbing partners banged some local 'tang. Pretty funny when one of 'em complained a few days later of burning when he peed. Many of the villages in Nunavut ban liquor which is wise policy. eg. I don't think alcohol has done Davis Inlet any favors. A couple friends lived in Iqaluit for a couple years, and they enjoyed the experience. Course, they're British, so they're used to deprivation.

What village are you considering? Iqaluit? Party at "The Zoo"!

I'll reiterate that, IMO, There has been an increase in greenhouse gases correlated to increased industrialization. And Draw your own conclusions. Me? I'm sweating the fact that the Canadian arctic is posting warmer temperatures this year (eg. Resolute is 10-15 degrees C warmer than "normal"), and I'm planning a trip on the sea ice.

You're tripping, dude. Without question, some regions have gotten warmer in past years. For example, the annual mean temperature in the state of Alaska has risen 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit over the last 30 years. A thermometer is a pretty low-tech instrument, and I'd venture to say that a majority of scientists would agree that the warming occurred.

The vehicles are restricted by license number. An even/odd deal. I don't know of emission restrictions on individual autos, though.

Large, naturally occurring, changes in CO2 levels in the geologic past have been correlated with features of climate change. It's hard to predict how current changes in greenhouse gas levels will affect mean temperature. Mexico City does impose limits on the numbers of vehicles on the road.

"Fuck, man. I'm okay!"

The "coup de grace" would be a sales contract for exportation of raw materials (in this case, water) from BC. At least that's the model derived from forest product sales.

j_b, the uncertainty of how greenhouse gases (of which CO2 is only one, but certainly has increased the most since pre-industrial times) affect the greenhouse effect is large.

That's speculative. Warfare, soil depletion, and disease were probably larger forces --at least for New World cultures.

The Greenland Ice Core project has retreived samples representative of the last 100,000 yrs. Not such a small sample size. Climate change is occuring. The accumulative data is suggestive of a man-made influence, but no smoking gun exists. No question, we'll have to deal with it.

Liberals are prone to self-inflicted wounds too. Or was Vince Foster murdered?

Just ridiculus:

As I understand it, BD developed the 10cm ice-screw for the thin-ice of Maple Canyon (which, when there's enough snow to yield melt-off and subsequent ice, is amazing. But the top-outs are still often thin). I've climbed next to BD engineer types there, and one guy used the stubbies exclusively, and managed placements times of less than 20 seconds. In good ice, they're supposed to hold pretty well since holding power depends greatly on the threads. I place them with confidence in good ice when high on a pitch (i.e. when there's plenty of rope stretch to minimize fall factor). If the ice blows out in a fall, you're hosed (in other words, the edge of a bulge might not be the best place to put short screws). The 13cm screws have slightly more threads than the 17cm and 22cm screws, so --theoretically-- they'll hold as well, or better, than the long screws. For crap ice, though, I put in a long screw in a downward direction.

Beats me. Grandma was 1/2 English, 1/2 German, and raised in western Alberta after migrating from Colorado. I think calling the drink "Boston tea" was to make it that much more appealing. One funny thing was that my mother didn't realize there was no tea in the drink until a few years ago.

"Boston tea" is a favorite hot drink (just milk and sugar) my grandma used to serve, and now I make for my children.

Yea it does. But I've noticed that once it starts slipping, it won't grab for awhile, unlike nylon which re-cinches pretty fast. Gets the blood pumping when you slip, fersure.

Especially when one considers that slippery spectra doesn't hold well even when configured in a Hedden knot.